To integrate child life professionals expertise through partnering with global organizations to empower and support children in disaster and crisis. Through the utilization of play and therapeutic activities, child life specialists promote coping and resilience. Components of education, expertise, research, materials, and interventions will ensure safe, respectful and effective support.
Historically, child life specialists have focused on health-care, however, the child life expertise and skill-set also have a unique value within the field of disaster relief.
